Two new giant pandas will be arriving at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, DC, this year ... two peoples,” Xi said at the time. The return of the bamboo-loving bears may mark ...

It’s panda-monium in DC again. Two giant pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, made their public debut at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in the nation ... the facility to return to China.

China will send two giant pandas to Washington DC by the end of the year, the Smithsonian’s National zoo said on its website ... be happy if China decided to return pandas to American zoos.

A sentencing hearing for James Staten, owner of Olympus Pools, began Wednesday afternoon. At the conclusion, a judge sentenced Staten to 20 years in prison and 30 years probation. He will also be ...

She said she hopes to be back at the airport “sometime soon again as we celebrate the return of giant pandas to Smithsonian’s National Zoo.” But there’s no guarantee that pandas will ...

Three-year-old giant panda Qing Bao snacks on bamboo prior to her long journey from China to Washington, D.C. PHOTO Roshan Patel/ Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Weeks ...

The National Zoo’s three giant pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji — are set to return to China in early December with no public signs that the 50-year-old exchange ...

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By Lee Powell Nov. 17 at 6:30 a.m. At the Smithsonian’s National Zoo ... pandas to step on a scale is like herding cats. Red pandas are more closely related to raccoons or skunks than giant ...

As the Jewish community observes Yom Hashoah on Thursday—a solemn day of remembrance commemorating the Holocaust and the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising—the Eisenhower Presidential ...